 But I'm constantly surprised at how people in the face of data still think the world is on a serious moral material downslide. Would you rather live in 1880 than now? If so, you might already be dead from a tooth abscess. In his latest column, Jesse Singall takes these people to task, especially our old friend Scientific American, which has apparently climbed on the things are worse bandwagon, which may now have become one aspect of the woke mindset. Singall gives some data to counteract these claims, and you can see, and we're going to go through some of that. Here's some excerpts.